Opinion
Rule of Law
by: Erum Haider
Date: November 18, 2013
No society has ever attained a perfect realization of the rule of law. But when plotting 35 countries on an objective scale, Pakistan is dangerously close to perfect failure, scoring...
Opinion
National Plans for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
by: Nadeem Ahmed
Date: November 18, 2013
In the days and weeks after the floods it has been suggested that the government's response was lacking, or that coordination mechanisms were weak. These are unfair remarks - the...
Opinion
A guilty witness to the flood exodus
by: Nasim Zehra
Date: November 18, 2013
It was around sunset and I was watching the floodwater spread to Tando Hafiz Shah. The small town in southern Sindh with an estimated population of 50,000 was almost completely...
Opinion
Pakistan Flood Recovery: Can Zardari Deliver Aid?
by: Shuja Nawaz
Date: November 18, 2013
The current flood in Pakistan is the worst ever-natural disaster to strike that country even as it is fighting an existential threat from a major Taliban insurgency inside its Western...
Opinion
Democracy at the brink?
by: Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi
Date: November 18, 2013
Daily Times 26th September, 2010 Democracy is a joint exercise of different state institutions and the political class with an emphasis on constitutionalism, the rule of law and respect for democratic...
Opinion
Year in Review 2010: Attacks on Shrines and Education
Date: November 11, 2013
In 2010, Pakistan witnessed a startling increase in the scale of attacks on shrines of Sufi saints throughout the country. Attacking shrines is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan "”...
Publications
Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict Trends in Pakistan 2011 – 2012
Date: November 1, 2013
2012 saw previous patterns of violence against religious minorities continue to be repeated, often with greater intensity. This report documents the increase in bombings at Sufi shrines, the rising spate of Hazara...
Publications
Can the Peace Process Move Past the Doha Collapse?
Date: November 1, 2013
As the 12th year of the Afghan war draws to an impasse, there are signs of an abstract convergence about peace in the country, although many of the components of...
Publications
Karzai in Pakistan – Tailoring Great Expectations
Date: November 1, 2013
He flew into Pakistan from Kabul on Monday with a tightly scheduled ten-hour itinerary in hand, only to later announce his decision to extend his visit until Tuesday and lunch...
Publications
Security Dispatch
Date: October 31, 2013
Cross Border Incursions across the Pak-Afghan border: Destabilising the Equation The July 24th attack into Bajaur Agency marked the latest cross border attack by militants from Afghanistan into Pakistan. This...
